Clifford’s ‘phone sex on honeymoon’

Max Clifford’s ex-wife caught him having telephone sex in their room while they were on their honeymoon, she has revealed.

Jo Westwood, who was granted a quickie divorce from the disgraced celebrity publicist earlier this year, said she confronted Clifford about the call but he said it was just a “game”.

And she also revealed the PR guru, 71, was trying to “wine and dine” women in the lead-up to his trial, and made her feel so insecure about their relationship that he convinced her she was going mad.

Miss Westwood made the comments in a tearful interview with Mark Williams Thomas for ITV’s This Morning – her first since Clifford was jailed for eight years for a string of sex attacks.

She said her marriage hit the rocks as soon as the pair embarked on their honeymoon in 2010.

She said: “We were on the beach one day and he said he needed to go back to the room and he went back. He was gone for some time and something in my tummy just didn’t feel right.

“I went back to the room and got back to the door and he was clearly on the phone and I heard him making a phone call of a sexual nature. And it just was devastating really.

“To begin with, he denied it. I said ‘Look Max, I can tell you what I heard word for word’. And he then said he was sorry it was just a game.”

Miss Westwood said that while Clifford could be “very generous”, he always spoilt things and her memories are now “bittersweet”.

During his trial at London’s Southwark Crown Court earlier this year, jurors heard that Clifford toyed with his female victims by promising to make them film stars before forcing them to commit sex acts on him.

He phoned women up pretending to be Hollywood stars and top producers, and name-dropped celebrities including David Bowie and James Bond producer Cubby Broccoli.

Miss Westwood said Clifford told “too many lies” and used her in his fantasy games.

She said: “On a couple of occasions I heard Max speaking about me, making me part of his fantasy games.

“I found that really hard and I would confront him about it and he just laughed and said ‘Jo, it’s just all a game. They don’t know you so what does it matter?’. But it did matter.”

She revealed she chose not to go to court to support her then-husband because he was showing her no respect by trying to woo other women.

She said: “I had thought about it seriously, about going, because I knew it would be better for him if I was there.

“But in the lead-up to the trial his behaviour continued, he continued to wine and dine these girls and I just thought he is showing me no respect at all.”

Miss Westwood also said Clifford kept a bin bag of pornographic photographs which made her feel very uncomfortable – but he was “proud to have” them.

She said: “Some of them had faces, but a lot of them didn’t. They were sexual. And when I said to him ‘How did you get all of these?’, he would say ‘I just used to be able to get women to do whatever I wanted’.”

She revealed that when she confronted Clifford about his behaviour, he branded her jealous.

She said: “He constantly told me I was insanely jealous and I was mad, and he would phone my family and friends behind my back. In the end he convinced me that I should go and see a psychiatrist.

“After a couple of meetings, she just said to me ‘Jo, you don’t need to be here, you really don’t’.”

And she revealed her shock after Clifford showed her a letter from one of his victims which told of the “child sexual abuse” she suffered at his hands.

In it the woman wrote: “You made my life a living hell. I had no one to turn to. You were very clever. An A+ in grooming children. How proud you must be.”

She urged Clifford to go to the police but he refused. When she later heard about the letter and other allegations during his trial, she said she was plunged into a “terrible state”.

She added: “I wasn’t eating, I wasn’t sleeping, it was a horrid time. My mind was all over the place.”

Clifford, 71, was found guilty of eight charges of indecent assault in April and was jailed for eight years. He was the first person to be convicted under Operation Yewtree, the police investigation launched in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.